When it comes to planting edible plants, I’ve been a fan of growing them in the ground – my reasoning being that when you give a plant more space to grow, it will be happier and more productive in good … Continue reading
Category Archives: Gardening issues
We used to have a pot of the raphis palm plant that my dad decided to plant in the garden. As most plants do when set free, the plant multiplied and grew into a huge clump that was easily over … Continue reading
It wasn’t my intention to try growing the Hami melon plant from a cutting, but when misfortune struck the plant in the form of the wind snapping the plant’s stem, I decided to sever the broken part from the rest … Continue reading
Learn from my hard-won lessons. It’s caterpillar season again, and short of frequent examinations of the undersides of all the leaves of our most susceptible plants, it’s really difficult to find and remove offending caterpillars until they’ve already done significant … Continue reading